Mission beach is about 4 hours away from Airlie beach. We decided to stop there for a few nights to break up the travelling to Cairns. We stayed at a hostel called Scotties which was quite nice with a pool and on the beach but again we couldn't go into the sea because of the stingers! We spent the first day messing about in the pool and playing gladiator with the spaghetti tubes across a log over the pool! That night we went to the bar where it was ladies night w...

After Hervey Bay we had another 13 hour coach trip ahead of us which we were not particularly looking forward too! After another bad night's sleep we arrived in Airlie Beach which is where the Whitsunday Islands and Great Barrier Reef starts. I arrived covered in bites which we think may have come from the coach and may have been bed bugs! We were staying at a place called Magnums which was not too bad and had lots of rooms through a rainforesty area. We had an 8...

The journey from Noosa to Hervey bay was only 2 hours away so wasn't bad at all. Hervey bay is basically the gateway town to Fraser Island which is a must do for all backpackers and is the biggest sand island in the world. Our tour was already pre booked with A1 Fraser Roving so we got picked up from the bus depot by the hostel that organises the tours. It turned out that our hostel was a old hospital which at first was a little unsettling especially as you can d...

Noosa is little beach resort 4 hours away from Brisbane. It's quite an upmarket resort however there are quite a few hostels scattered about for backpackers due to it being the gateway to Australia Zoo. We had booked accommodation at the last minute and could only get in one which was the Koala Resort. We realised soon after we arrived why it was the only hostel we could get into! Our room wasn't very nice at all the beds were bunk beds as usual but they were rea...

Whilst in Sydney we decided that me, Ady, Ryan and a friend of his from back home Sarah would do a little road trip up the east coast of Australia as far as Cape Tribulation. We had to wait for Ryan to finish his job at Diagio then we were to set off around the 4th November. The original plan was to get a relocation camper van and see the coast that way as it's cheaper and would be more fun, but it wasn't to be as there were no relocations to cairns on the dates ...